The essential feature of Reading Disorder is reading achievement (i.e., reading accuracy, speed, or comprehension as measured by individually administered standardized tests) in a child that falls substantially below that expected given the individual's chronological age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education.

Specific Symptoms of Reading Disorder

• Reading achievement, as measured by individually administered standardized tests of reading accuracy or comprehension, is substantially below that expected given the person's chronological age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education.
• The disturbance in the first criterion significantly interferes with academic achievement or activities of daily living that require reading skills.
• If a sensory deficit is present, the reading difficulties are in excess of those usually associated with it.

 

 

Criteria summarized from:
American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

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